Adobe AIR 2 example: UDP sockets with PyAMF and Twisted
Posted by Thijs Triemstra | Filed under udp, air, example, twisted
The upcoming release of Adobe AIR will provide support for UDP sockets, allowing you to send and receive messages using the Universal Datagram Protocol (UDP).
We created an example, using Adobe AIR 2.0 and the PyAMF and Twisted libraries for Python, that echoes ByteArray messages every x seconds to a Twisted UDP server. The example application also enumerates available hardware and software network interfaces on the client computer using the new NetworkInfo API.
Read more in the tutorial.
PyAMF server/client using Jython with Swing
Posted by Thijs Triemstra | Filed under jython, client, example, server, swing
Now that the upcoming Jython 2.5 is getting closer to it's final release, I thought it would be nice to create an example that shows PyAMF running on top of Jython. Jython is an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python written in 100% Pure Java, and seamlessly integrates with the Java platform. It thus allows you to run Python scripts on any Java platform.
Below you see a screenshot of the example, which was created using Java's native Swing UI toolkit. It allows you to start a simple AMF server on localhost:8000 and embeds an AMF client that makes calls to that server. This particular example doesn't interact with an Adobe Flash Player application, it simply shows it's possible to run PyAMF servers and clients on top of the upcoming Jython release.
You can browse or download the source from the Subversion repository. You can find instructions on how to run the example yourself in the documentation.
SQLAlchemy and Flash: Addressbook example
Posted by Thijs Triemstra | Filed under sqlalchemy, example
Dave Thompson created a new address book example that uses the new SQLAlchemy adapter that was added in the latest release of PyAMF. PyAMF provides Action Message Format (AMF) support for Python, mainly used in the Adobe Flash Player for RPC communication.